>You can take the resulting IL and disaasemble into C# code.
>The X#/vfp code can be viewed as syntactic sugar on top of a C# library.
>This C# lib is base on the expirience of coding a Clipper lib...
>The C# disassembled code is not totally lousy.
>Been there, nosied about that
> ;-)

Just once I saw the Clipper 87 code, in C++. Because that version of clipper wasn't even a compiler, it was a preprocessor for c++. And literally every command you write actually translates into a call of some runtime function. Pretty much what any interpreter does, just producing a file of this intermediate step. Looked a lot neater than the xbase syntax, which was confusing in many places (to a beginner, when I was one).

Ah... when I remember how the clipper guys looked down on fox, because it needs runtime, doesn't produce a monolythic exe. And that runtime was what, 2M? And look at the size of dot net runtimes...